To:SOPHIA BRICHKINA[1]

Written:Written early in January 1920Published:First published in 1945 in LeninMiscellany XXXV.

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Brichkina:that is not the way. It is not enough to send
it to Tsyurupa. You must check andwrite downwhat replyhas been sentandwhen.

[1]Writtenon a telegram from V. Yushin of Oshta village, Olonets
Gubernia, who complained that the local authorities had
requisitioned from him one of his three cows. Yushin pointed out that
his family consisted of nine persons and his son was in the Red
Army. Brichkina sent a copy of the telegram to Tsyurupa in the
People’s Commissariat for Food.